IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19793, 17 February 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES

1477.—Caxion invented printing. 1815. —Peace concluded with United States. ■ , 1865.—Charleston evacuated by Confederates and occupied by Federate. IB6o.—Habeas Corpus suspended in Ireland on account oi Fenian agitation. 1910.—Lord Kitchener arrived Dunedin.

I don’t think God worries much whether 1 smoke or not.—Miss Maude Hoyden.

The Savoy Hotel, in London, has installed three drinking fountains, copied after the famous Benvenuto Cellini Fountain at Florence, tor the dogs of guests. In spite of the magnificent work of-the-London County Council in rehousing schemes, there are still 2UU.OOU houses unfit for habitation in unhealthy areas in London.

Slogan 30: There is a season for all things, yet it is always seasonable to have cleaning done. For the best Chimney, Carpet, and Vacuum Cleaning, ring 10-493. Dunedin Window Celaning Co., 50 King street; Robert Knowles, manager...

According to Herr Emil Ludwig, the well-known German biographer, Bismarck smoked 100,000 cigars and drank 5,000 bottles of champagne ..in five years. Experience of Sooullai and Chisholm’s Furniture is that it le the cheapest in the city Test it ‘or yourselves

Thera is still more good in the world than there is evil, and I am certain that there will'always be greater and stronger forces for the betterment of mankind than towards the destruction of the universe.—The Pope.